"Acting Park Chul-woo" Woori Card defeated Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance to advance to "Spring Volleyball for the first time in 2 years... IBK Industrial Bank also leaps to fourth place

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Woori Card, under the acting head coach Park Chul-woo, will take the spring volleyball stage for the first time in two seasons.

Woori Card defeated Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance with a set score of 3-0 (25-23 25-22 25-17) in the men's away game of the "2025-2026 Season V-League" at Chungmu Gymnasium in Daejeon on the 17th.

Woori Card, which won four consecutive games, rose to third place with 20 wins and 16 losses (57 points). Woori Card, which secured at least fourth place, confirmed its advance to the semi-playoff (semi-PO) for the first time in two years since the 2023-2024 season, when it ranked second in the regular league.

The final 3rd and 4th rankings will be determined by the results of the match between KEPCO (56 points) and KB Insurance (55 points) on the 18th. For both men's and women's teams, a single-round semi-PO will be held when the difference in points between the third and fourth places in the regular league is within three points.

On this day, Woori Card led the attack with Araujo scoring 19 points and Kim Ji-han scoring 10 points. Park Jin-woo and Lee Sang-hyun also added nine points each. On the other hand, Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance's main gun Ahi fought hard with 18 points, but failed to prevent a complete defeat and ended the regular league bitterly with 30 losses (6 wins).

In the women's division, IBK Industrial Bank shut out Korea Expressway Corporation, which early confirmed the top spot in the regular league, with a set score of 3-0 (25-20 25-23 25-20), saving hope in spring volleyball.

IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, which has won two consecutive games, has 18 wins and 18 losses (57 points) to pull down GS Caltex (54 points), which has played one less game, to fifth place and settled in fourth place.

Whether or not to advance to volleyball in the final spring depends on the result of the final match between GS Caltex and Hyundai Engineering & Construction, ranked second in the regular league, on the 18th. If GS Caltex takes three points (3-0 or 3-1 victory), the three teams will tie with 57 points, with GS Caltex ranking third, Heungkuk Life Insurance ranking fourth, and IBK Industrial Bank ranking fifth.

At IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, Victoria (20 points) and Yuk Seo-young (11 points) flew. The Korea Expressway Corporation, which confirmed the top spot in the regular league, gave rest to key players such as Moma and Kang So-hwi, and Jeon Sae-yan (15 points) and Song Eun-chae (11 points), who were put in instead, fought hard.

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